Beware of “Sexuality” Education for Children!

Dear Supporter of the Family,

In their new report, “Stand and Deliver,” International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) reveals their plans to work with the youth to “recast sex and sexuality as a positive force for change and development” and as “a source of pleasure.”  The report states that “comprehensive sexuality education” for children is essential for their “self-esteem,” helps them to “develop satisfying and pleasurable sexual lives,” and allows them to “challenge traditional gender roles.”

IPPF’s fixation on sexual pleasure, rather than teaching children to abstain from or delay risky sexual behavior, is emerging in “sexuality” education programs being promoted around the world. 

Consider the following:

• As we reported a few months ago, UNESCO, with help from UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO and others, published The International Guidelines on Sexuality Education, which maintains that children have a right to receive instruction in sexual pleasure, masturbation and homosexuality, among other things.  The Guidelines are intended to drive sex education programs in schools worldwide under the guise that this kind of education is needed to prevent unwanted pregnancy, coercive or abusive sexual activity, and sexually transmitted diseases.  Remember, these Guidelines teach that children ages 5 to 8 should understand that “Masturbation is not harmful,” and homosexuals “can raise a child and give it the love it deserves.”  Children ages 9 to12 are taught the “Steps for proper use of condoms” and the “Definition and function of orgasm.”  Teenagers 12 to 15 years of age are taught that “Both men and women can give and receive sexual pleasure with a partner of the same or opposite sex.”  By age 15, adolescents should be aware of “the right to and access to safe abortion.”  See our Policy Brief on the UNESCO Guidelines for more detail.
  
  
• At the request of a foreign official, Family Watch just created a policy brief for government leaders on a graphic “sexuality” education book designed for youth and their educators in the Caribbean Islands entitled “You, Your Life, Your Dreams.” As with the UNESCO Guidelines, the Caribbean manual is riddled with inappropriate explicit materials that ultimately will produce the very consequences they purport to eradicate.  The manual includes graphic drawings of nude adolescents, and instructs children on how to “safely” engage in anal and normal sexual intercourse as well as oral sex.  In addition, this manual encourages the use of sex toys; declares only illegal abortions as unsafe; and lauds the use of condoms.  The manual also undermines parental guidance by stressing that “it is very healthy” to question parents’ beliefs, as youth may want “to take risks . . . and it can be hard to learn much from [parents].”  See FWI Policy Brief.
  
  
• This kind of  twisted sexuality ideology is trickling down to the schools my own children attend in Gilbert, Arizona  In my book, Stand for the Family, I give a sobering example of very inappropriate sexual content in a European history book our daughter was required to read in her high school that condones the story of a man sodomizing a neighbor boy and states that homosexuality was a normal part of gender development throughout European history.  And recently, a bisexual legislator in our state introduced a bill to allow the promotion of homosexuality in the schools as being healthy and normal.  On a related note, as a result of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, the courts there have mandated that parents cannot opt out of homosexual indoctrination given in public schools to children even as young as five.

The “sexuality” education programs being promoted by IPPF and various UN agencies, as well as by SIECUS in the United States and similar groups in other countries around the world, claim that abstinence is an outdated method of protecting against STDs and preventing pregnancies.  They argue that their “comprehensive” programs are the only “evidence based” programs proven by science to be effective.  

Based on these kinds of arguments, the current U.S. Administration recently eliminated $170 million in annual federal funding for abstinence programs and instead launched a pregnancy prevention program.  However, now the U.S. government has to deal with a landmark study just published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, which clearly shows that abstinence-only programs can make a significant difference in delaying teenage sex and were more effective than “comprehensive” sex education programs.  (Read a summary here.)

No matter where you live, you must be aware of what your children and grandchildren are learning in their schools.  If you are not vigilant, they may be receiving highly explicit and inappropriate “sexuality” education without your consent.  If it is not happening already, it may soon be.

Sincerely,

Sharon Slater
President

News Items of Interest

Abortion

International Planned Parenthood Pushes "Sexual Rights," Abortion for Children.  The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute reports that the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is demanding that children as young as ten years old receive “comprehensive sexuality education.”  IPPF’s report, Stand and Deliver, insists that children worldwide have the right to receive such education, which is often graphic and very explicit, and access to sexuality education and services should be “free from administrative restrictions and obstacles,” such as parental consent.  Read more here.

56 Percent of All Americans Say Abortion is “Morally Wrong.”  In a poll conducted by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, 58 percent of those ages 18 to 29 take this position.  It is believed that part of the reason that more and more Americans are against abortion has to do with technologies such as 3-D ultrasounds that reveal in more detail the humanity of unborn children.   Read more here.

52 Million Abortions in U.S. Since Roe v Wade.   The number was determined by an analysis done by the National Right to Life Committee that was based on both abortion statistics and on estimates.  The Centers for Disease Control uses figures from state health departments, but some states rely on voluntary reporting making exact figures difficult to determine.  Read more here.

Human Rights Watch Pressures Ireland to Legalize Abortion.  The organization has issued a report claiming that Ireland is in violation of international human rights law by criminalizing abortion.  The report demands that the government of Ireland take immediate steps to legalize abortion for all women.  Abortion is illegal in Ireland except to preserve the life of the mother.  Read more here.

China Faces Bride Shortage by 2020.  The country’s one-child policy has resulted in the sex- selective abortion of millions of female babies and has created the shortage.  It is estimated that 24 million Chinese men of marrying age will not be able to find a wife in ten years.  There may be an increase in intergenerational marriages because of the imbalance.  Read more here.

Homosexuality Related

Top U.S. Defense Officials Say Homosexual Ban in Military Should be Lifted.  The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen stated that the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy forces homosexual military members to “lie about who they are.”  Mullen and Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked for a year to determine the impact lifting the ban would have before the policy is rescinded, which would require an act of Congress.  Read more here.

New U.S. Federal ‘Hate Crimes’ Law Challenged on Constitutional Grounds.  The Thomas More Law Center has filed a lawsuit challenging the new law which was attached to a defense authorization bill and signed by President Obama last October.  The bill grants special protections to individuals who are victims of crime based on their sexual orientation or their gender identity.  Read more here.

Many Successful Same-sex Marriages Not Monogamous.  A study to be released next month by San Francisco State University has found that about 50 percent of male homosexual couples have sex with someone other than their partner with the full knowledge and approval of their partner.  The study also revealed that homosexual couples in open relationships are just as happy as couples in sexually exclusive relationships.  Read more here.

Bill in U.S. Congress Would Criminalize Harassment of GLBT Students.  The legislation was introduced by openly homosexual U.S. Rep Jared Polis (D-CO) and extends protection against discrimination that already exists for women and minorities to sexual orientation, gender identity or “perceived gender identity.”  The bill will allow victims to sue school officials that do not stop bullying or harassment of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender students in federal court.  Read more here.

 

Marriage Related

Majority of Americans Want Supreme Court to Uphold Marriage. A poll conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion found that 52 percent of Americans expect the Supreme Court to rule in favor of man/woman marriage and 58 percent wanted the court to issue such a ruling.  The poll has a margin of error of +/- 3.1 percent.  Read more here.

New Mexico Domestic Partnership Likely Dead.  The controversial bill has been referred to a third committee for hearings, a move that is seen as probably killing its chances of passage during the short 30 day legislative session.  Read more here.

Mexican Federal Government Will Try to Overturn Homosexual Marriage Law. Federal prosecutors contend that the Mexico City law that legalized homosexual marriage and same-sex adoption violates the national constitution.  Read more here.

Bills Filed to Block D.C. Homosexual Marriage.  Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz and Utah Senator Robert Bennett filed resolutions of disapproval under the provision in the D.C. home rule law that gives Congress 30 legislative days to block any ordinance passed by the city council.  Read more here.

British Study Dramatically Underscores Marriage is Fundamental to Family Stability.  The study found that only 3 percent of unmarried couples with children had stayed together by the time their children turned 16 years old.  It strengthens the Tory push for subsidies and special incentives to promote marriage, a program opposed by the Labour government.  Read more here.

Hawaii Civil Unions Legislation Dies in House.  Action on the bill has been indefinitely postponed.  A two-thirds majority vote would be required to bring the bill back for consideration this session, and it is not likely to happen.  The state Senate recently approved a civil unions bill that would grant unmarried same-sex and heterosexual couples the rights and benefits of marriage.  Read more here.

News Items of General Interest

Study Finds Abstinence-only Sex Ed Most Effective at Delaying Sex Among Youths.  According to the study published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, only one-third of the sixth and seventh grade students who received eight hours of abstinence instruction had sexual intercourse within two years of the class.  More than half of the students who received instruction about safe sex and condom use had intercourse.  More than 40 percent of the students who received either eight hours or 12 hours of instruction with both abstinence education and safe sex education reported having sex at the two-year mark.  The findings are considered to be highly significant.  Read more here.

Democrats Forced to Shelve Massive Healthcare Overhaul.  The move came largely as a result of the Massachusetts senatorial election upset which dramatically underscored growing voter distrust and opposition to the massive U.S. healthcare system overhaul President Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress were attempting to impose.  They indicated they may try again in several months.  Read more here.

German Home Schoolers Granted U.S. Political Asylum.  The family of seven have been granted asylum by a U.S. judge who ruled that they have a legitimate fear of prosecution for their beliefs.  The family moved to Morristown Tennessee after the parents were fined thousands of Euros by German authorities for home schooling their children.  Read more here.

Planned Parenthood Uses Teens to Distribute Injectable Birth Control in Ecuador.   The program is a “peer-to-peer” model with about 30 youth who have been trained to inject the contraceptive in other youth in rural communities.  The trained youth also dispense birth control pills and condoms.  Read more here.

 

Have We Gone MAD?

Bizarre, real-life examples that make us wonder. . . Have We Gone MAD?

Bump “Bump”

WARNING: Graphic description contained herein that may be very offensive to some readers.

Anything goes.

Absolutely anything.

Technology has provided a way for any humanoid to take any random idea and run with it.  Whether the idea is even worthy of the run.

Case in point: “Bump” the show.

“Bump” is a new Web-based, semi-reality show.  Actresses portray pregnant women contemplating abortion who are trying to get on a reality show.  The actresses aren’t really pregnant, the doctor isn’t really a doctor, and the reality show isn’t really a show.  Got that?

What is real is that the public is encouraged to join the debate and will determine the script and who will and will not get the pretend abortion.

Abortion is the most emotional, hotly debated topic in history.  But I think I know what would end the debate forever and end the run of “Bump” the show.

If the world were to be shown the barbaric partial birth abortion procedure, this is what they would see--A a full term, preborn infant, inches from birth, who has the base of her skull pierced with a sharp surgical instrument.  Then the infant’s brain is suctioned out of her skull.  After that, viewers would watch as the infant’s skull is compressed and the once perfect, now-dead baby is delivered and thrown in the trash with the banana peels and coffee grounds.

This is reality.

And it happens every day.

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